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WORK

From the beginning of the industrial age, issues surrounding work relations and the ‘worker question’ have been seen by the Catholic Church as the key to a just society.

Korean Bishop Stands up for Workers
Bishop Boniface Choi Ki-san of Incheon, president of the Korean bishops' Committee for Justice and Peace, has urged all employers to address the practice of employing non-staff workers. In Korea more than half the total 16 million workforce are said to be part-time or on contract.

Religious Items made by Slaves?
A Christian Goods Standard has been estalished after it was discovered that some Christian merchandise is made under exploitative conditions.

“While work, in all its many senses, is an obligation, that is to say a duty, it is also a source of rights on the part of the worker … The human rights that flow from work are part of the broader context of those fundamental rights of the person.”

Pope John Paul II, Laborem Exercens, n 16.

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